This update includes articles by Ellis Brooks and Maya Evans who have just returned from Kabul. During their trip they worked with 100 street kids, delivered conflict resolution workshops to the Afghan Peace Volunteers, collectedContinue reading

February 21, 2017 Highlights from this trip include sharing a room with Zarghuna’s mother Farzana, which allowed me to hear a Bamiyan woman’s life story. She talked about spending 6 months in Kabul when sheContinue reading

In late October, while traveling in Russia with a small delegation of peace activists from Voices for Creative Nonviolence (www.vcnv.org), a young Russian lawyer and his brother took me to Dacha Na Pokrovke, a MoscowContinue reading

On the morning of distribution, the truck full of duvets got stuck in the slush, snow and ice. The wheels spinning, spitting rocks and mud, on the young men and the driver while they wereContinue reading

Originally posted on opednews. February 12th, 2017 The withdrawal of U.S. troops would also be good for the Afghan people, as the presence of foreign soldiers has been an obstacle to peace talks. The AfghansContinue reading

This article first appeared in the National Catholic Reporter, February 8th, 2017. Before making their home in Damascus, Gabe Huck and Theresa Kubasak had regularly visited Baghdad and other Iraqi cities. Through multiple trips andContinue reading

Our friend Cassandra Dixon, from the Mary House of Hospitality Catholic Worker in Oxford, Wisconsin, is in Palestine; and forwards us this report as a model of steadfast, undiscouraged resistance. She writes: Dear Friends, ItContinue reading

January 28, 2017 All Trump, all the time. With a punishing, disorienting barrage of executive orders, President Trump is reversing hard fought gains made in environmental protection, health care, women’s rights, immigration policy, and nuclearContinue reading

January 25, 2017 This morning, here in Minneapolis, six jurors decided beyond a reasonable doubt that I am guilty as charged and my co-defendant, Dan Wilson was found innocent. The court case stems from anContinue reading